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adjcertain to end in failure and disappointment

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"I have had it in Scotland with colt teams which are now allowed in the Challenge Cup, they are no-win matches for the first team.
Injuries Campaign for Real Education chairman Christopher McGovern said: "While some claims are genuine, many are part of a health and safety racket that enrich no-win, no-fee lawyers and robs schools of funding."
Martyn James, of complaint handling site resolver.co.uk, said: "No-win, no-fee lawyers make life worse for us all, bringing increased costs for goods and services and undermining real, serious complaints."
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"But I do generally have concerns about the drain on the public bodies of no-win no-fee lawyers who promote their services for clients."
Meanwhile nearly pounds 200m has been pumped into a pot for NHS compensation payouts, the Department of Health said, because claims have increas sed in recent years as a result of no-win, no-fee lawyers.
Referral fees - which are incurred when a no-win, no-fee claim is passed between claims management firms, insurance companies and lawyers - have been blamed for the spiralling costs of motor insurance.
However, chief executive Henry Engelhardt said that the company was not immune to the rising level of no-win no-fee injury claims as higher payouts clipped profits growth to 27 per cent at pounds 160.6 million.
The survey by law referral service Contact Law, suggests personal injury solicitors will be less likely to offer no-win no-fee agreements as a result of the changes.
Summary: India on Monday proved that it is a side very keen to acquire champion status by converting a no-win situation into a very creditable draw on the fifth and final day of the second Test against New Zealand at the MaClean Park in Napier.
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama and his campaign have been spending much time recently confronting false rumors that he's a Muslim; he told reporters Sunday that the allegations have put him in a "no-win situation."
TRAINER Jim Bolger has dismissed criticism of his late decision to run New Approach in Saturday's Vodafone Derby and believes he was left in a "no-win situation".
"I was in a no-win situation as I was a Welshman who had been associated with one club for many years.
Asked if he felt he would be in a no-win situation if he did have to decide whether to approve charges, he said: "I've been in this job long enough not to worry about whether I'm in a no-win situation or not."